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Re: What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits

Gene S. Berkowitz (first.last@comcast.net)
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:03:21 -0500

In article <telecom23.553.10@telecom-digest.org>,
Mark_Reichert@hotmail.com says:

> DevilsPGD <devilspgd@crazyhat.net> wrote in message
> news:<telecom23.547.7@telecom-digest.org>:

>> Walmart is consistently the cheapest on those products, for example.

> What will you do when, no longer able to squeeze its employees or
> suppliers, it starts squeezing you by lowering the quality?

What do you mean, "when"? Wal-Mart has for years negotiated with
manufacturers to produce exclusive versions of hundreds of products
in order to meet specific price and cost targets.

--Gene

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